From Peasant to Petersburger

ISBN-13: 9780312214975 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 212 str.

Evel Economakis

Opis

Historians know what St.Petersburg's industrial workers did during the revolution of 1905-7, the strike wave of 1912-14, and the revolutions of 1917. What they still do not know, however, is who these people were, where they came from, what were the paths of recruitment into industry that they followed, and what were their socio-economic characteristics. Evel Economakis analyses the processes of proletarianization and urbanization undergone by St.Petersburg's industrial working class from its inception in the early nineteenth century up until 1914.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction A Forgotten Source: The Census of 1864 The Sending Areas: Basic Characteristics of Early Labour Migration to St. Petersburg Peasant well-being in the Sending Areas Severing of Ties to the Land Urbanisation in St. Petersburg Conclusion Notes Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography Index

O autorze

EVEL G. ECONOMAKIS is editor of a local newspaper in St Petersburg, Russia. He received his PhD in Russian history at Columbia University. He has taught at Boston University, the University of Toronto and Concordia University in Montreal. His articles have appeared in The Slavic Review, The Russian Review, The Slavonic and East European Review, The Journal of Family History and in Severo-Zapad V Agrarnoi Istorii Rossii.